Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah (* 1948 in Sansibar, heute Tansania) ist ein tanzanischer Schriftsteller, der in Großbritannien lebt und arbeitet.

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Von 1980 bis 1982 lehrte Gurnah an der Bayero University Kano in Kano, Nigeria. Anschließend ging er an die University of Kent, wo er 1982 promovierte und seit dieser Zeit dort im Exil lehrt.[1]

Veröffentlichungen

Romane
Kurzgeschichten
  • 2006: My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa.

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Einzelnachweise

  1. ↑ Saubere Tassen. Ostafrikanische Autoren im Hessischen Literaturforum in FAZ vom 26. Februar 2011, Seite 51

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